84544 - Emotions and Cognitive Processes

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student:

- will have a general knowledge on the interplay of emotion and cognition;

- will know how emotion affects perception, attention, memory and decision making;

- will know basic mechanisms of emotion regulation in in normal and pathological populations . 

- will know affect assessment through self report and psychophysiological methods;

Course contents

EMOTION

Defining characteristics

Functions of Emotion

Emotion and Motivation

Components of Emotion

Theories of Emotion

 

EMOTION ELICITATION AND ASSESSMENT

Induction methods

Self-Report Methods

Biosignals

Behavioral measures

 

EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTIONS

The affective primacy, independence, and automaticity hypothesis

The interdependence of cognition and emotion

Emotion and Perception

Emotion and Attention

Emotion and Learning

Emotion and Memory

Emotion and Decision making

 

EMOTION AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Emotional regulation

Emotional intelligence and Alexithymia

Emotional processing and Psychopathology

Emotional reactivity and Psychopathology

Readings/Bibliography

Codispoti M. e Ferrari V. (2018). Emozioni e Processi Cognitivi. In M. Turatto (a cura di), Psicologia Generale, Milano, Mondadori, 268-313. ISBN: 978-88-6184-558-9

Codispoti M. e Ferrari V. (2018). Le Emozioni. In M. Occhionero (a cura di), Introduzione alla Psicologia Generale, Roma, Carocci, 241-282. ISBN: 978-88-430-9361-8

Mayer, J. D., Caruso, D. R., & Salovey, P. (2016). The Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence: Principles and Updates. Emotion Review, 8(4), 290–300.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures, group discussions of scientific articles, works in small groups with class presentation.

Assessment methods

The exam is written and it includes two open questions.

Teaching tools

Laboratory

Office hours

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